Life and Reminiscences of General Wm. T. ShermanR. H. Woodward Company, 1891 - 479 pages This is a collection of thoughts and reminiscences on General Sherman from the most important and influential men of the day. Published the year of his death, it includes tributes from President Hayes, senators, high-profile priests and judges. |
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Page 35
... body of troops , composed of portions of the Sixteenth Army Corps , Major - General S. A. Hurlbut com- manding , and the Seventeenth Army Corps , Major - General James B. McPherson command- ing . On the 3d of February the expeditionary ...
... body of troops , composed of portions of the Sixteenth Army Corps , Major - General S. A. Hurlbut com- manding , and the Seventeenth Army Corps , Major - General James B. McPherson command- ing . On the 3d of February the expeditionary ...
Page 45
... bodies . This success gained on the 1st of September , 1864 , was received throughout the country with great enthusiasm . President Lincoln sent this message of thanks and congratulation : " The national thanks are rendered by the ...
... bodies . This success gained on the 1st of September , 1864 , was received throughout the country with great enthusiasm . President Lincoln sent this message of thanks and congratulation : " The national thanks are rendered by the ...
Page 58
... bodies of men near us here . There are detachments at Holly Springs and Senatobia , the present termini of the railroads from the South , and all the people of the country are armed as guerrillas . Curtis is at Helena , eighty miles ...
... bodies of men near us here . There are detachments at Holly Springs and Senatobia , the present termini of the railroads from the South , and all the people of the country are armed as guerrillas . Curtis is at Helena , eighty miles ...
Page 71
... body was taken in a private car to St. Louis and interred in Calvary Cemetery in a plot which the General and she had picked out together in 1866 , and where the remains of two of her sons and three grandchildren were sleeping . Father ...
... body was taken in a private car to St. Louis and interred in Calvary Cemetery in a plot which the General and she had picked out together in 1866 , and where the remains of two of her sons and three grandchildren were sleeping . Father ...
Page 75
... body in Calvary Cemetery alongside my faithful wife and idolized ' soldier boy . ' " My health continues good , so my comrades of Ransom Post must guard theirs , that they may be able to fulfil this sacred duty imposed by their first ...
... body in Calvary Cemetery alongside my faithful wife and idolized ' soldier boy . ' " My health continues good , so my comrades of Ransom Post must guard theirs , that they may be able to fulfil this sacred duty imposed by their first ...
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